> (2) I don't think many people are relying on this behavior.  (Why
   >     would you want to run "tail -f" on a pipe?)

   Agreed.  That does seem freaky.  I can't think of a useful case for
   it.

I can't think of a specific or concrete case right now, but `tail -f'
on a pipe could be used on GNU/Hurd, in theory.

Cheers.


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